Diane Di Prima, best known for her work as a Beat poet and writer, was born 6 August 1934 in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College (1951-1953). Di Prima has received National Endowment for the Arts grants in 1966 for Poets Press and in 1973. She writes nonfiction, autobiographies, journals, essays, poetry and plays.

Timothy Leary, clinical psychologist and Harvard professor, became an advocate for the use of psychedelic drugs after conducting experiments with psilocybin mushrooms and LSD. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1920, he attended the United States Military Academy at West Point, but was court-martialed for an honor code violation. When he refused to resign from the Honor Committee, his fellow cadets were ordered to shun him. He ultimately chose to leave the Academy.
Le...

The manuscript suggests that M. Wright was Irish by birth. He was irregularly employed as a surveyor in New South Wales, Australia, and during 1847 surveyed portions of Dungog, Newcastle, and Singleton.
From the description of [Diary of a surveyor in East New South Wales, Australia]. 1847. (University of California, Los Angeles). WorldCat record id: 65562476
...

Grace Paley (b. Grace Goodside, Dec. 11, 1922, Bronx, NY-d. Aug. 22, 2007, Thetford, VT) attended Hunter College and The New School where she studied with W. H. Auden. She married June 20, 1942, Grace Goodside married cinematographer Jess Paley in 1942 and had two children before getting divorced. Paley married poet Robert Nichols 1n 1972. She taught at Sarah Lawrence College. Her first collection was published in 1959.
A known pacifist and social activist, Paley joined the War Resisters Leagu...

American poet, publisher, and editor, born in San Francisco in 1941. Associated with the Language School of contemporary poetry.
Publisher of Tuumba Press chapbooks since the late 1970s and editor of Poetics journal since 1982. An important figure in promoting the avant-garde poetry of her day. Has spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area.
From the description of Lyn Hejinian papers, 1973-1994. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat recor...

Biographical Information
Michael Sykes awoke one morning in June 1975 with the idea to begin publishing an occasional gathering of material and to call it Floating Island. He had given the idea some consideration before, over the years 1969-1974, while he owned and operated a bookstore in Point Reyes Station, CA. The main inspiration for the name Floating Island comes from the geological fact that the ground on which Sykes stood, the Point Re...

Amiri Baraka was born LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in 1934. He was educated at Rutgers and Howard Universities, graduating from the latter at the age of 19. In 1958 he founded the influential poetry magazine Yugen, which ran until 1962. His writings, including fiction, essays, and poetry, appeared in such publications as The nation, Evergreen review, Downbeat, and The floating bear.
From the description of Imamu Amiri Baraka papers, 1958-1982. (University of California, Berkele...

American poet.
From the description of Disappearance of the word, appearance of the world : signed typescript, [1976?]. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 18849645
American poet, writer, and editor, born in Pasco, Washington, in 1946.
Has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area most of his life, and is associated with the Language School of writers. Attended Merritt College, San Francisco State Univ., and the Univ. of California a...

Epithet: of Add MS 29149
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000987.0x000365
For nearly the last 50 years, Samuel Charters has been discovering and documenting African American music. Starting as a field recorder for Folkways Records in 1954, Sam Charters has also served as recording director for Prestige and Vanguard Records, producer for Sonet Records and is the owner of Gazell Records . A prolific writer and poe...

Born in Los Angeles November 2,1942, Janine Canan is a Stanford graduate who received her M.D. from New York University School of Medicine and is a practicing psychiatrist in Sonoma, California. She is the author of many books of poetry including In the Palace of Creation: Selected Works 1969-1999 (Scars 2003), and Messages from Amma: In the Language of the Heart, sayings of the Indian "hugging saint" (Celestial Arts 2004), selected for "Best Spiritual Books of 2004." Her books Changing Woman (S...

For nearly the last 50 years, Samuel Charters has been discovering and documenting African American music. Starting as a field recorder for Folkways Records in 1954, Sam Charters has also served as recording director for Prestige and Vanguard Records, producer for Sonet Records and is the owner of Gazell Records . A prolific writer and poet, Charters has published many books about the blues and accounts of the lives of musicians who played the blues. In the field, he often collaborated with his ...

Writer and translator, Helen Frances Mollica Barolini was born in Syracuse, N.Y., has a B.A. from Syracuse and a M.L.S. from Columbia, and attended a number of universities in Europe. She married Antonio Barolini, Italian author and correspondent, had three daughters, and lived in Italy in the late 1960s. She has published a novel, two volumes of poetry, and an anthology of writings by Italian American women, as well as essays, reviews, and fiction in many periodicals.
From the descr...

Poet and journalist, of New York, N.Y., and later Henniker, N.H.; b. Joel Lester Oppenheimer, 1930; d. 1988.
From the description of Papers, ca. 1953-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 86123194
From the description of Joel Oppenheimer papers, 1925-1988. (University of Connecticut). WorldCat record id: 28419831
Joel Oppenheimer was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1930 to Jewish parents. He failed out of Cornell University after one year (in 1948) and spe...

Biography
Miriam Patchen, wife of American novelist and poet Kenneth Patchen, peace activist, and longtime Palo Alto resident, died March 6, 2000 at the age of 86.
Born Sirkka Miriam Oikemus in Belmont, Massachusetts in September 28, 1914, Miriam, like her Finnish socialist parents, became a lifelong political activist. She joined the American Communist Party at age 7 and claimed to be the "youngest card-carrying member" of this p...

Diane Di Prima was born on 6 August 1934 in Brooklyn, N.Y. She attended Swarthmore College, but dropped out in 1953 to move to Manhattan and become a writer. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she joined the emerging Beat movement. She was the editor of the newsletter The Floating Bear with LeRoi Jones, 1961-1969. In 1966, she moved to Millbrook, N.Y., to live in Timothy Leary's community. She moved to San Francisco, Calif., in 1968. In California, she taught at such institutions as the New Coll...

Biography
Biographical Narrative
Masa Uehara, daughter of Tokusei and Mitsu, was raised in Japan. She and Gary Snyder were introduced in 1966 at a dinner party hosted by Hisao Kanaseki, one of her university professors and a friend of Snyder's. At the time of their introduction Uehara had recently graduated from Kobe University and was planning to pursue graduate studies at Ochanomizu Women's Universit...

Andrew Murray Scott is a novelist, poet, non-fiction writer and freelance journalist. Born in Aberdeen in 1955, he was educated at Dundee High School and Dundee University, where he graduated with a first in MA English and Modern History.
A former Scottish National Party councillor, Murray Scott was the winner of the inaugural Dundee International Book Prize for unpublished novels with his first novel, Tumulus .
From the guide to the Andrew Murray Scott Colle...

Epithet: merchant, of London; owner of the 'Hopewell'
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000149.0x0001c3
William Perkins (1558-1602) was born at Marston Jabbett, Warwickshire. He matriculated at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1577 (B.A., 1581; M.A., 1584), where he became a Fellow in 1584. He was lecturer at St Andrew's, Cambridge, until 1602. Perkins was the author of many theological works, which were translate...

Prism International was founded in 1959 by a group of Vancouver writers, teachers and others with literary interests including several members of the University of British Columbia's Department of English. Then simply known as "Prism", it was the only literary magazine in Canada west of Toronto, becoming a forum for the work of Canadian authors including Margaret Laurence, Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton , George Bowering and Jack Hodgins. Between 1959 and 1963, Jan de Bruyn served as its first e...

Tucker was a journalism professor at Temple Univ. and he also started Turtle Island Press during the latter 1970's.
From the description of Manuscripts: proofs, 1970-1979. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 727944346
...

U.S. publishing firm, 1949- .
From the description of Press releases, 1959, re D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" [manuscript]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647833316
Grove Press is an American alternative book press founded in 1951 by editor and publisher Barney Rossett. It merged with The Atlantic Monthly Press in 1991 and as of 2010 is an imprint of the publisher Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Grove Press was known for its unusual and sometimes controversia...

The Naropa Institute was founded in 1974 by Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, as a summer school. It offered courses, workshops and performances in dance, theater, music, painting, religious studies, psychology and cognitive science. By 1976, two year-round Master of Arts programs and three one-year certificate programs had begun. In 1978, the Institute received candidacy for accreditation status from the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
By 1982, the Naropa In...

BIOGHIST REQUIRED Maverick and iconoclast American publisher Barney Rosset was born in Chicago in the "year of modernism," 1922. He is chiefly remembered as the owner, publisher, and editor of Grove Press (from 1951 to 1986) and Evergreen Review. In 1940 he spent a year at Swarthmore College and then entered the US Army in 1942. In 1948, after having served as an officer in the Army Photographic Company in China until his return to New York in 1946, Rosset produced Strange Victory, ...

Sponsored by Stanford University, the English Department, the Creative Writing Program, the Stanford Humanities Center, the Stanford Library, and the Library Associates.
From the description of A symposium on his poetry and his place in American letters : recording, 2005 Nov. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754864090
David Shaff was at Yale at this time; he wrote and edited poetry.
From the description of Letters to David O. Schaff, 1962-1965. (Unknown). WorldC...

Biography / Administrative History
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997.
From the guide to t...

The Museum of Scotland, part of the National Museums of Scotland, was designed by the architects Benson and Forsyth. The firm had been selected as winners of an archictectural competition in 1991. The design received inspiration from Scotland's national building tradition, evoking the idea of castle, broch, tower house, and tenement. Materials used include external cladding of golden Clashach sandstone from Morayshire, and concrete, limestone, beech, and smooth plaster in the interi...

Universalist theological school and liberal arts college chartered by the State of New York in 1856; first classes were held in 1858; Theological School was disbanded in 1965.
From the description of Records, 1856-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155501771
...